Struck by a car at age 11, paralyzed from the neck down and breathing through a respirator ever since, Brooke Ellison became the first paraplegic ever to graduate from Harvard. Told in alternating chapters by Brooke and her mother Jean, her closest companion, her story begins on the day that changed her life and nearly killed her. It concludes with the promise that Brooke's life is just beginning, and it will be a remarkable one indeed. In stock.